Marquette University Opus College of Engineering

💪⚡ Biomedical engineers in the making!

We had a blast welcoming high students to join our “Biomedical Engineering Bootcamp,” a Summer Engineering Experience at Marquette. This program for high schoolers explores the three majors of Marquette’s biomedical engineering program – biocomputer, bioelectrical and biomechanical engineering – all within a collaborative, hands-on project.

Over the course of three mornings, students investigated muscle activation, built circuits and practiced coding to develop a motor that could be controlled by their own muscle data.

Thanks to Drs. Beardsley, Cooper and Onushko for leading this experience to inspire future engineers!

We caught a few familiar faces hosting a jam session for some good vibrations ahead of the fall semester. Actually, they’re lesson planning for a new first-year engineering course that aims to introduce engineering fundamentals with a special interdisciplinary spark.

Curious what this team is doing with a guitar and an Arduino connected to a microphone? Stay tuned as we launch our new Engineering Discovery course this fall.

What takes simple machines to the next level of intelligence? Curious humans with a knack for solutions!

“Smarter Machines: exploring microcontrollers and artificial intelligence” is a Summer Engineering Experience for high school students designed to explore the interplay of microcontrollers, embedded systems and artificial intelligence to make products and solutions for everyday use. An enthusiastic group of students joined Dr. Cris Ababei earlier this summer to dive into the hands-on learning of electrical and computer engineering at Marquette!

We are grateful for the opportunity to spark passion among the next generation of students. Don’t blink, they will be leading solutions for our communities in no time.

We are counting down the days until our Marquette engineering community can gather together on campus later this month!

Students: mark your calendars for our Opus College of Engineering Welcome Back BBQ on Monday, August 31, 3:30 - 5:30p.m.

There is something special about learning from a professor who literally “wrote the book on it.”

Dr. Philip Voglewede, professor of mechanical engineering at Marquette, recently co-authored the second edition of “Engineering Dynamics.” Including over 150 real-world examples to motivate student learning, over 400 homework problems, and accompanied online by Matlab and Python repositories and supplemental material, the new edition of this classic is ideal for senior undergraduate and graduate students in engineering.

In a Q&A, Voglewede discusses the new book and how it complements his teaching and research.

Read more: https://today.marquette.edu/2026/07/marquette-bookshelf-engineering-dynamics/

The future of water resources engineering starts at Marquette!

Our second Summer Engineering Experience for high school students explored water quality and water resources engineering with an enthusiastic group of students.

With support from experts in the field, students participated in hands-on experiments in water quality, green infrastructure and even the drone technology that engineers use to monitor our environment.

As Marquette drives the future of environmental engineering research and solutions for our planet, we are excited to welcome the next generation of leaders to join in the fun.

Fail. Learn. Repeat.

It’s all in the name of “Fail, Learn and Repeat: Exploration of Automation,” one of Marquette’s Summer Engineering Experiences for high school students.

This program brought together curious high school students to discover how engineers use the engineering method with automation to solve real-world problems. Hands-on technical learning with our robots was paired with lessons in teamwork, communication, efficiency, and of course, learning from failure.

This experience was hosted by Dr. Philip Voglewede in our Omron Advanced Automation Lab, a state-of-the-art learning laboratory co-created with industry to develop the next generation of industrial automation, manufacturing and supply chain leaders.

We love the opportunity to bring high school students into the same learning environments we offer our current students – especially when our engineering experts can help reframe students’ perceptions of “failure” in engineering!

Suscipe Prayer of St. Ignatius of Loyola 🕊️

Take, Lord, all my liberty.
Receive my memory,
my intellect, and will.

Whatever I have or hold
you have given to me;
so I return them to you
to be used according to your will.

Give us only your love
and your grace,
and with these we are rich enough
and ask for nothing more.

Today, we celebrate the feast of St. Ignatius of Loyola, founder of the Society of Jesus. We thank St. Ignatius for the nearly 500-year-old gift of Jesuit education.

Join us for Mass at the Church of the Gesu today at 12:05 p.m. or 5:30 p.m.

Happy National Intern Day to all our Marquette engineers leading exciting, hands-on work during their internships and co-ops!

And thank you to our many industry partners around the country who provide outstanding experiences for students to develop their professional skills, explore their passions and contribute to real engineering projects.

Dr. Majeed Hayat, chair and professor of electrical and computer engineering in the Opus College of Engineering, is the principal investigator on a National Science Foundation grant worth nearly $600,000 to develop novel improvements to provide efficient sensing and processing for hyperspectral imaging.

Hyperspectral imaging is commonly used in medical, environmental monitoring, military and agricultural fields, and is the process of capturing every wavelength for every pixel of an image. Hayat and his colleagues will develop a hardware-software solution to reduce communication traffic and power consumption while improving speed, privacy and performance.

Read more:

Marquette faculty receive National Science Foundation grant for a smart hyperspectral imaging system | Marquette Today Dr. Majeed Hayat is the principal investigator on a grant worth nearly $600,000 to develop novel improvements to provide efficient sensing and processing for hyperspectral imaging.